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42:1  For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
42:2  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
42:3  My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’
42:4  These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.
42:5  Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God.
42:6  My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon – from Mount Mizar.
42:7  Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
42:8  By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me – a prayer to the God of my life.
42:9  I say to God my Rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?’
42:10  My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’
42:11  Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God.